Year End Meeting Highlights: Bengaluru, Checklists, and Campaigns

ACORN ACORN International Community Organizing Labor Organizing

New Orleans               Ten organizations from the US and Canada in our family of community organizations, labor unions, media operations, and social enterprises came together as we do every year in a Year End / Year Begin Meeting to evaluate the work of the past year and plan for the current year.  Beside the people meeting …

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Progress on Payday Lending and the Digital Divide in Canada

ACORN International Canada

Chicago     Like clockwork the ACORN Canada staff continues the tradition of mid-December YE/YB or Year End / Year Begin meetings.  Getting snowbound in Montreal one year and caught again another year in Niagara Falls, convinced them that perhaps meeting in the USA made sense, given that plane fares was actually cheaper.  Several years ago we …

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